Case study: The acoustical characteristics of typical argentinean classrooms

Building Acoustics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 301-310

  Ercoli, Liberto ^a   Azzurro, Adrián P ^a   Méndez, Antonio M ^b   Stornini, Alberto J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA NACIONAL   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ACOUSTICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ACOUSTICAL PARAMETERS; AMBIENT NOISE; ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES; HIGH SCHOOL; LEARNING EXPERIENCES; UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646509379     PISSN: 1351010X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1351010011501867     Document Type: Article

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